Before purchasing some Bowers.P5s, my google search inevitably brought me back here where I saw the P5s had been devoured by HeadFi stigmatosis. A combination of prejudice against style, combined with an early unfavorable post by a headphonus supremus nips in the bud any serious critiquing of a...

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It's been a long, strange trip- Status peaks have been the GS1000's and Denon 5K's. Also, K701's. RS1's of all varieties. In fact Grados and Alessandros of all flavors and machinations. DT880's impressed as well. I have owned each of these phones separately, so I have memory over A/B...

In addition to a superb product (I am currently listening to Little WIng/Third Stone from the Son by Stevie Ray Vaughan and the sparkle of the cymbals and the heart-pounding bass drum are truly lifelike for an IEM), the customer service has been excellent. Jason has personally and promptly...

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I bought both the D2k's and the D5k's at Amazon, and ran them both from an X-Can v3 and an X-can v8. Listening from an MF A5 as a preamp and a Cambridge 840c as a DAC (for Squeezebox) and CD Player. I also run a Clearaudio Emotion with a Grado Reference Master. Listened to Dylan, Neko...

Maybe it was Phil Gold at EnjoytheMusic or the knowledgeable Vade Forrester over at Soundstage or maybe this forum on its own, but... ... a well-deserving series of gleaming reviews of the AKG K701's inadvertantly creates a lab test for the Kool-aid drinking that goes on on this forum daily...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll..._promot_widget Just got a pair today. They pass the... http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?p=101698 ...test, minus the branding. They sound incredible.

... AND YOU CAN THANK THE V-MODA VIBES. The reason that switching tips doesn't make a difference is because these aren't traditional IEM's; they are MINI OPEN-BACK CANS. It's both unnecessary and impossible to get a seal with these. In fact, it defeats the purpose of the open back...

Roger Daltrey kept his UE Custom monitors dangling over his shoulders last weekend in Boston.

I have to weigh in on the iGrado's. Not to state the obvious, but anytime we are talking about "street style" or "portable", we are dealing in compromises. Nobody expects any portable phones to provide the imaging and staging of RS1's, Hd-650's, or whatever your full-sized poison. We can...

I purchased brand new and sealed 325is from an authorized dealer. They came with a not-so-small chip (quarter inch) along the lip on the inner plastic housing that sits under the foam pads. Is this a big enough problem to ask for a replacement?

I mean the foam packaging. MY RS1s came in a pool-table green foam insert. Anyone else?

I just brought home a brand new Grado RA-1 amp and connected it first to my ipod via a monster RCA to 1/8" cable. Indicator light on. I plugged in my RS1s, got the poppoing sound at connection and then- silence. LED light still on and no sound. I then plugged it into my MF A5 integrated amp via...

I've got both on the way, and must settle on one for walking-around-the-city phones. Any thoughts?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Grado-RS-1-Headp...QQcmdZViewItem I am not affiliated with this sale- just FYI. I have bought two pairs of 325is from this seller, however, and he is the real thing.

The RS-1s ARE that good. I was skeptical; didn' t think I'd hear a big difference from 325is. I was wrong to say the least.

For me, the "Grado sound' on paper and in life is made for jazz, with one drawback. The best jazz recordings are old and from live club sessions and sonically pretty hacked up. Even studio stalwarts like "Tenor Madness" reveal gaps and choppyiness, never mind the great earlier live stuff of...

... to stay off this site and save my marriage. I just bought a mint pair of MS2i's from utep10, received them yesterday and loved them so much I thoight I'd forever cured my upgrade fever. My x-can 3 just arrived Wednesday. Not three hours after receiving the Alessandros I purchased a...

"Colored" as we use it means that the sound through the phones is somehow altered from the sound coming out of the source. (not sure I'm comfortable with the historic conotations of "colored' but that's for a different forum). In any event, I took the Senn (650s) to Grado (RS2's and now...